Son of Soul Music Legend Catches Race Rant on Video
The tech entrepreneur was driving home when he was confronted by a woman neighbor.
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The son of music legend Isaac Hayes claimed he was harassed by a “Karen in the wild” who told him he should be “white.”
Isaac Hayes III, a tech entrepreneur and manager of his father’s estate, posted a video of him being approached by a woman as he was driving to his home in an upmarket suburb of Atlanta, Georgia.
“You trying to get in? Who are you? I’m on the board,” says the woman, who is wearing a leopard-print outfit. “You driving here like a bat out of hell, you drive in and drive out...
“F--- you, it’s all ridiculous, we have dogs, we have people and you don’t even care,” she adds.
Hayes answers politely, saying he lives in the community and the woman appears to say, “Why don’t you be white?”
“Christmas Eve Karen: I’ve never seen a Karen in the wild. Well tonight I had my first up close encounter with one,” Hayes wrote on Instagram, adding: “I stayed calm, I made no sudden movements and got away as quickly as I could.
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“Outside of preventing me from entering my community, cursing at me and telling me I should be “White.” It’s pretty surreal. White Supremacy is crashin' out all 2025. Be safe.”
The incident reportedly happened at the Cobblestone gated community in Brookhaven, Atlanta.
Isaac Hayes died in 2008 at the age of 65. He co-wrote Sam & Dave’s classic hits Soul Man and Hold On I’m Coming, and won an Academy Award in 1972 for Best Original Song for the Theme From Shaft. He also voiced the character of Chef in the long-running Comedy Central show South Park. However Hayes Snr., a Scientologist, parted ways with the show amid its unsparing depictions of the religion and its most famous members.
Music legend Isaac Hayes.
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Hayes III said in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter that his father didn’t quit South Park over a show skewering the religion but that “someone quit South Park for him.”
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